2022 Overview:
2022! The year I finally returned to theaters. The year I fully launched this site. I figure it will be fun to gather movies I’ve seen by year as I watch and review, and I’m starting with 2022.
- 2022 Annual Recap
- The B.A.D.S. by The Goods 2022
- Best Picture: Pearl
- The Top 10 Movies of 2022
- The Bottom 5 Movies of 2022
- Most Anticipated (Start of 2022, Pictured): Cha Cha Real Smooth
2022 Movies Watched and Rated:
- Last Updated: 12/3/24
- Note: Previously this list was ranked, but I’ve since changed my process to group into “Is It Good?” tiers rather than a strict rank. You can view that ranking, before it was abandoned, here.
- Ratings on the Is It Good? scale
- (**) = no full length review
- (s) = short film
- (p) = The Goods: A Film Podcast episode
Exceptionally Good (7/8)
- Decision to Leave
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Falcon Lake**
- Pearl
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish**
- TÁR (Tar)
Very Good (6/8)
- Aftersun**
- Babylon (p)
- Banshees of Inisherin**
- Bones and All**
- Causeway
- Confess, Fletch
- Do Revenge
- Elvis
- The Fabelmans
- Haulout** (s)
- The House
- The Ice Merchants** (s)
- I Like Movies**
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- (Guillermo Del Toro’s) Pinocchio
- The Northman
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical**
- RRR
- Skinamarink
- Top Gun: Maverick
- X
Good (5/8)
- About Fate**
- Am I OK?
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
- The Batman
- Bodies Bodies Bodies
- Bros
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Emily the Criminal
- Fall
- The Flying Sailor** (s)
- Funny Pages
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery**
- Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline**
- Look Both Ways
- A Man Called Otto
- M3GAN (Megan)
- The Menu
- Minions: The Rise of Gru
- My Year of Dicks** (s)
- Moonshot
- Nope
- Sam & Kate
- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol**
- Strange World
- The Sea Beast
- Till**
- To Leslie**
- Triangle of Sadness
- Turning Red
- Watcher
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- When You Finish Saving the World
- Women Talking
Nearly Good (4/8)
- Alice, Darling**
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Armageddon Time
- Barbarian
- The Bad Guys
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse** (s)
- Call Jane**
- Crush
- The Curse of Bridge Hollow
- Disenchanted
- Empire of Light
- Honor Society
- Metal Lords
- My Father’s Dragon**
- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- Palm Trees and Power Lines
- Persuasion
- Scream (p)
- She Said
- Snow Day
- Spirited** (p)
- Talk to Me
- Ticket to Paradise
- Troll**
- Zombies 3 (p)
Not Very Good (3/8)
- 38 at the Garden** (s)
- The Blackening
- Don’t Make Me Go
- Don’t Worry Darling
- Falling for Christmas
- Lightyear
- Mickey Saves Christmas (s)
- Monster High: The Movie**
- Not Okay
- Rosaline
- Sharp Stick
- Where the Crawdads Sing
Not Good (2/8)
- Amsterdam
- Halloween Ends
- Love & Gelato
- Luck
- Moonfall**
- Stranger at the Gate** (s)
Very Not Good (1/8)
2022 Review Index
| Title | Date | Film Year | Director | Is It Good | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don’t Make Me Go (2022) | 05/26/2024 | 2022 | Marks, Hannah | 3 | 2022, Hannah Marks |
| Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022) | 12/13/2023 | 2022 | Lewen, Michael | 5 | 2022 |
| Talk to Me (2022) | 09/30/2023 | 2022 | Philippou, Danny / Phihlippou, Michael | 4 | 2022, New Release |
| The Blackening (2022) | 09/09/2023 | 2023 | Story, Tim | 3 | 2022, New Release |
| Babylon (2022) | 06/14/2023 | 2022 | Chazelle, Damien | 6 | 2022, Damien Chazelle |
| Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022) | 05/26/2023 | 2022 | Dack, Jamie | 4 | 2022, New Release |
| A Man Called Otto (2022) | 05/20/2023 | 2022 | Forster, Marc | 5 | 2022, Tom Hanks |
| When You Finish Saving the World (2022) | 03/27/2023 | 2022 | Eisenberg, Jesse | 5 | 2022, New Release |
| Watcher (2022) | 03/12/2023 | 2022 | Okuno, Chloe | 5 | 2022 |
| The Sea Beast (2022) | 02/27/2023 | 2022 | Williams, Chris | 5 | 2022 |
| Women Talking (2022) | 02/24/2023 | 2022 | Polley, Sarah | 5 | 2022 |
| Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) | 02/18/2023 | 2022 | Fabian, Anthony | 4 | 2022 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) | 02/16/2023 | 2022 | Berger, Edward | 4 | 2022 |
| Causeway (2022) | 02/07/2023 | 2022 | Neugebauer, Lila | 6 | 2022 |
| Call Jane (2022) | 02/03/2023 | 2022 | Nagy, Phyllis | 4 | 2022 |
| M3GAN (2022) | 01/31/2023 | 2022 | Johnstone, Gerard | 5 | 2022 |
| Snow Day (2022) | 01/24/2023 | 2022 | Lembeck, Michael | 4 | 2022 |
| The Fabelmans (2022) | 01/18/2023 | 2022 | Spielberg, Steven | 6 | 2022, Steven Spielberg |
| The Menu (2022) | 01/06/2023 | 2022 | Mylod, Mark | 5 | 2022 |
| Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) | 01/03/2023 | 2022 | del Toro, Guillermo | 6 | 2022 |
| Strange World (2022) | 01/02/2023 | 2022 | Hall, Don | 5 | 2022 |
| Sam & Kate (2022) | 12/19/2022 | 2022 | Le Gallo, Darren | 5 | 2022 |
| Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) | 12/11/2022 | 2022 | Miller, George | 6 | 2022, George Miller |
| Mickey Saves Christmas (2022) | 12/09/2022 | 2022 | Brooks, David H. | 3 | 2022 |
| The House (2022) | 12/07/2022 | 2022 | Baeza, Paloma / De Swaef Emma / Lindroth von Bahr, Niki / Roels, Marc James | 6 | 2022 |
| Armageddon Time (2022) | 11/29/2022 | 2022 | Gray, James | 4 | 2022 |
| TÁR (Tar) (2022) | 11/28/2022 | 2022 | Field, Todd | 7 | 2022 |
| Triangle of Sadness (2022) | 11/26/2022 | 2022 | Ostlund, Ruben | 5 | 2022 |
| Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | 11/24/2022 | 2022 | Appel, Eric | 5 | 2022 |
| Falling for Christmas (2022) | 11/21/2022 | 2022 | Damian, Janeen | 3 | 2022 |
| Disenchanted (2022) | 11/20/2022 | 2022 | Shankman, Adam | 4 | 2022 |
| Amsterdam (2022) | 11/16/2022 | 2022 | Russell, David O. | 2 | 2022 |
| Confess, Fletch (2022) | 11/07/2022 | 2022 | Mottola, Greg | 6 | 2022 |
| Persuasion (2022) | 11/05/2022 | 2022 | Cracknell, Carrie | 4 | 2022 |
| Pearl (2022) | 11/03/2022 | 2022 | West, Ti | 7 | 2022 |
| Don’t Worry Darling (2022) | 11/02/2022 | 2022 | Wilde, Olivia | 3 | 2022 |
| Ticket to Paradise (2022) | 11/01/2022 | 2022 | Parker, Ol | 4 | 2022 |
| Emily the Criminal (2022) | 10/31/2022 | 2022 | Ford, John Patton | 5 | 2022 |
| Rosaline (2022) | 10/28/2022 | 2022 | Maine, Karen | 3 | 2022 |
| Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) | 10/27/2022 | 2022 | Linklater, Richard | 5 | 2022, Richard Linklater |
| Barbarian (2022) | 10/26/2022 | 2022 | Cregger, Zach | 4 | 2022 |
| The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022) | 10/24/2022 | 2022 | Wadlow, Jeff | 4 | 2022 |
| Bros (2022) | 10/21/2022 | 2022 | Stoller, Nicholas | 5 | 2022 |
| Halloween Ends (2022) | 10/19/2022 | 2022 | Green, David Gordon | 2 | 2022, Halloween Series |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) | 10/14/2022 | 2022 | Daniels | 7 | 2022 |
| The Northman (2022) | 09/27/2022 | 2022 | Eggers, Robert | 6 | 2022 |
| Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) | 09/23/2022 | 2022 | Reijn, Halina | 5 | 2022 |
| Do Revenge (2022) | 09/22/2022 | 2022 | Robinson, Jennifer Kaytin | 6 | 2022 |
| Love & Gelato (2022) | 09/21/2022 | 2022 | Camp, Brandon | 2 | 2022 |
| Decision to Leave (2022) | 09/19/2022 | 2022 | Park Chan-wook | 7 | 2022 |
| Marmaduke (2022) | 09/16/2022 | 2022 | Dippé, Mark A.Z. | 1 | 2022 |
| Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) | 09/15/2022 | 2022 | Balda, Kyle | 5 | 2022 |
| Metal Lords (2022) | 09/14/2022 | 2022 | Sollett, Peter | 4 | 2022 |
| X (2022) | 09/13/2022 | 2022 | West, Ti | 6 | 2022 |
| Moonshot (2022) | 09/12/2022 | 2022 | Winterbauer, Christopher | 5 | 2022 |
| Look Both Ways (2022) | 09/11/2022 | 2022 | Kahiu, Wanuri | 5 | 2022 |
| Pinocchio (2022) | 09/09/2022 | 2022 | Zemeckis, Robert | 1 | 2022, Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis |
| Sharp Stick (2022) | 09/07/2022 | 2022 | Dunham, Lena | 3 | 2022 |
| Honor Society (2022) | 09/06/2022 | 2022 | Zegman, Oran | 4 | 2022 |
| Fall (2022) | 09/05/2022 | 2022 | Mann, Scott | 5 | 2022 |
| Funny Pages (2022) | 09/03/2022 | 2022 | Kilne, Owen | 5 | 2022 |
| The Bubble (2022) | 09/02/2022 | 2022 | Apatow, Judd | 1 | 2022 |
| Nope (2022) | 08/30/2022 | 2022 | Peele, Jordan | 5 | 2022 |
| Crush (2022) | 08/28/2022 | 2022 | Cohen, Sammi | 4 | 2022 |
| Luck (2022) | 08/27/2022 | 2022 | Holmes, Peggy | 2 | 2022 |
| Top Gun: Maverick (2022) | 08/25/2022 | 2022 | Kosinski, Joseph | 6 | 2022 |
| Not Okay (2022) | 08/19/2022 | 2022 | Shephard, Quinn | 3 | 2022 |
| The Batman (2022) | 08/16/2022 | 2022 | Reeves, Matt | 5 | 2022 |
| Lightyear (2022) | 08/08/2022 | 2022 | MacLane, Angus | 3 | 2022 |
| Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022) | 08/05/2022 | 2022 | Hoen, Paul | 4 | 2022 |
| Scream (2022) | 07/27/2022 | 2022 | Bettinelli-Olpin, Matt / Gillett, Tyler | 4 | 2022, Radio Silence, Scream |
| Elvis (2022) | 07/22/2022 | 2022 | Luhrmann, Baz | 6 | Baz Luhrmann, 2022, Tom Hanks |
| Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) | 07/21/2022 | 2022 | Newman, Olivia | 3 | 2022 |
| The Bad Guys (2022) | 07/15/2022 | 2022 | Perifel, Pierre | 4 | 2022 |
| Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) | 06/18/2022 | 2022 | Raiff, Cooper | 5 | 2022 |
| Turning Red (2022) | 03/11/2022 | 2022 | Shi, Domee | 5 | 2022 |
- Review Series: 2022: Year in Film
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